Antonio Guterres and UN reform

• October 4, 2018

Just days before the United Nations held a meeting with heads of state and foreign ministers on Secretary-General António Guterres’s Action for Peacekeeping initiative, the UN Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 2436 on peace operations, on Sept. 21. Drafted by the United States, the resolution is the result of collaboration between Council members and …

Geopolitics, UN Peacekeeping, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations

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The UN Secretary-General’s Disappointing Peace-Building Proposal

Graciana del Castillo

• December 11, 2017

Since the end of the Cold War, a diverse group of countries at low levels of development emerged from intrastate conflicts and embarked on a complex transition to peace, stability and prosperity. All aspects of such transitions are closely interrelated and reinforce each other. Simultaneous security, political, social and economic activities compete for scarce …

Peace and Security, Secretary-General, WORLDVIEWS

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Trump to Force UN Reform Agenda at General Assembly Session in September

Kacie Candela

• August 30, 2017

The United States is planning to hold a high-level meeting on United Nations reform during the opening days of the 72nd General Assembly debate. The Sept. 18 meeting is to be chaired by Donald Trump and held a day before he is scheduled to address the UN for the first time as America’s president in …